Description:This presentation will guide the clinician in the RDN scope of practice for dietary supplements, and include a risk characterization framework for practitioner decision-making and client decision-making.

Learning Objectives:

1.Identify key legal, regulatory, bioethical and scope of practice issues that guide and inform dietary supplement use in practice.

Mary Beth Augustine is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and Delegate in the Academy House of Delegates. Mary Beth is the Integrative Dietitian Nutritionist at the Englewood Hospital and Medical Center Graf Center for Integrative Medicine in Englewood, New Jersey, and Founder and Director of Nutritional Healthcare in Mount Kisco, New York. Mary Beth’s speaking highlights include the United Nations Committee on Aging, American Institute for Cancer Research Cancer Survivor Conference, Integrative Healthcare Symposium, Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo (FNCE), and the Hawaii, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, West Virginia and Wisconsin Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics meetings. Mary Beth has been featured on CBS, ABC, NBC, and Fox 5 News, Today in New York, CNN Market Watch, Discovery Health TV, and National Public Radio.